Hey guys, I put this together as a easier way to visualize & update your business hypotheses.<p>Writing down the beliefs your startup is based on is crucial... it keeps you focused on risks instead of features, makes communication w/ team & investors easier, and stops you from ignoring the evidence. Yet most people don't do it (and almost no one consistently updates them).<p>I thought Steve Blank's customer development worksheets were a good start, but it's hard to update quickly and doesn't provide an overview. The canvas you see on the app is a modification of the Business Model Generation canvas, which I re-vamped to better suit startups.<p>Hope it's handy.
My first thought was that this would be silly. Until I went inside and saw for myself. Very thought provoking, an exercise definitely worth my while.<p>Until I read this:<p><i>We'll try our best to preserve your data, but no guarantees. Your canvas is secured by obscurity, which is to say it's not very secure at all. Anyone with your canvas' URL may view and edit it. If and when we add a paywall, we'll make sure you can export any existing data.</i><p>Honestly, how hard would it be to just fix this first?<p>I think you're really on the right track to something good. But until you fix this, I'll just use my own text editor to save my thoughts on my own hard drive.
I saw Alexander Osterwalder (author of Business Model Generation) speak at a TEDx event here in Stockholm and I liked his ideas. This looks nice, and I look forward to using it.<p>Thanks!<p>[EDIT: Alexander Osterwalder, not Steve Blank...]
To be very honest, my first thought is that in all "HONESTY" you CANNOT do all this - its impossible to do all these things (claimed on the website), without experiencing those in person and it will vary from person to person based on the context, circumstances, idea etc. I think it will be a disservice to any confused soul (I am guessing those are the kind of people who would hit your site) by claiming to do things that are not practically possible, without actually experiencing those.